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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's actually proceeding as contemplated.  The recent community survey suggests an overwhelming preference for changing the name (Stuart received @ 18% of the total votes cast, and other names @82%).[/quote]

Really? That's the plan? Let the community vote on seventy-something names, then ignore the one that got the most votes? 
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It's the exact opposite of ignoring it.  It's recognizing that 82% prefer something other than the minor variation on the current name.

They've already decided to change the name of JEB Stuart and this confirms Stuart without the initials (aka "Headless JEB") isn't even close to a "compromise" replacement.[/quote]

:roll: The board decided that Stuart was a viable alternative, the community voted on it, and now you are indeed arguing that the fact that Stuart won should be ignored.[/quote]

Indeed.  The community voted on it, and 82% of the votes went to other options - in a field of 73 names.  They cannot plausibly keep "Stuart" without subjecting themselves to unprecedented levels of ridicule.

It would be like having an election with one incumbent Republican and 72 Democratic primary candidates, and claiming that the Republican deserves the slot because the Democratic candidates split 72 ways, regardless of the fact that the Democrat would trounce the Republican in a general election - indeed, just like Karen Keys-Gammara trounced Chris Grisafe in the recent special election.  [/quote]

Seems to me that the school and school board are already subjects of ridicule.

If Democrats ran 72 candidates in a general election, and a lone Republican won more of the vote than any one of them, that Republican would indeed get the slot. You're twisting this in bizarre ways to negate the results of the vote. Again, a vote for Peace Valley does NOT equal a vote for Barbara Rose Johns, no matter how many times you insist that it does.
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The keepers are the subject of ridicule though their continued, outdated allegiance to a Confederate general who fought for slavery.  [/quote]

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